School of Social Sciences

Comparative Politics Research Cluster Seminar - Sophia Hatzisavvidou

16:00 - 17:30 3 May 2023
Sophia Hatzisavvidou (University of Bath)

Javier Garcia Oliva's Inaugural Lecture 'Whose Law is it Anyway?'

16:00 - 18:00 3 May 2023
Whose law is it Anyway? The Supreme Court recently ruled on a claim made by the occupants of luxury apartments on the South Bank, who objected to the Tate Modern offering visitors…

MET Seminar - Quitzé Valenzuela-Stookey (Berkeley)

17:00 - 18:00 3 May 2023
Title: Redistribution Through Tax Relief Abstract: This paper studies politically feasible policy solutions to inequities in local public goods provision. I focus in particular on…

Applied Seminar - Saurabh Singhal (Lancaster)

13:00 - 14:00 4 May 2023
Title: Agricultural Productivity and Deforestation Abstract: Improving agricultural productivity is vital to anti-poverty and food security goals but can have ecological ramifications.…

Peace: symbolic, material, political

14:00 - 15:30 4 May 2023
What is peace in a contemporary context where wars of conquest, in Ukraine and before that in Iraq, seem to unravel, or even rupture, the postcolonial international order? What is peace…

The Problem of Poverty (MANCEPT)

16:00 - 17:30 4 May 2023
Dennis Pirdzuns (University of Manchester Abstract: Poverty is an obvious moral and political problem. An exceptional unanimity prevails in the theoretical literature that poverty…

2023 Politics Undergraduate Conference

10:00 - 15:00 9 May 2023
Annual Politics and International Relations Undergraduate Research Conference with support from the student team at Juncture, The University of Manchester Undergraduate Politics Journal…

Austerity and Solidarity

12:00 - 13:30 9 May 2023
Our next AALC seminar is focused on the topic: Austerity and Solidarity. With this online event we focus on resistance to, and in spite of austerity, and also consider how this topic…

Macro Seminar - Anastasios Karantounias (Surrey)

16:00 - 17:00 9 May 2023
Title: A general theory of tax-smoothing

Brownbag - Nuno Palma

13:00 - 13:50 10 May 2023
Title: Justices of the Peace: Legal Foundations of the Industrial Revolution

Democracy and Election Seminar

15:30 - 17:00 10 May 2023
Raluca Pahontu (Kings College London)

Democracy and Election Seminar

15:30 - 17:00 10 May 2023
Raluca Pahontu (Kings College London)

MET Seminar - Andrew Ellis (LSE)

17:00 - 18:00 10 May 2023
Title: Equilibrium Effects of Machine Learning (joint with Michele Piccione and Shengxing Zhang) Abstract: We introduce a tractable framework for studying the equilibrium effects of…

Applied Seminar - Michael Poyker (Nottingham)

13:00 - 14:00 11 May 2023
Title: Economic Consequences of the U.S. Convict Labor System Abstract: I study the economic spillovers of convict labor on local labor markets and firms. Using newly collected panel…

College Behind Bars: Film Screening and Discussion on Justice and Education

18:00 - 20:30 11 May 2023
Join us for a film screening and discussion of College Behind Bars, an Emmy-nominated documentary directed by award-winning filmmaker Lynn Novick, which tells the story of a small group…

Lewis Lab Seminar - Melanie Xue (LSE)

16:00 - 17:00 11 May 2023
Title: TBC

The Moral Duty to Vote (MANCEPT)

16:00 - 17:30 11 May 2023
Cecile Fabre (All-Souls, University of Oxford) Abstract: As of 2022, 27 democracies make it compulsory for all or most of their citizens to vote in local or national elections. In…

Econometric workshop in honour of Jack Johnston's centenarian

10:00 - 17:00 12 May 2023
The Econometrics group at the University of Manchester is happy to announce a workshop in honour of Jack Johnston's centenarian. The workshop takes place on Friday the 12th of May 2023…

How affinities matter in the lives of European transnational families: Studying intra-European mobility through the lens of potent connections (Anna Simola)

12:00 - 13:00 16 May 2023
Dr Anna Simola (Université Catholique de Louvain & University of Helsinki) shares her research on transnational families. The presentation introduces on-going research that advances…

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